Description

A 12-month-old boy presented with a history of respiratory distress and stridor since the first month of life. He had been
repeatedly misdiagnosed as recurrent croup. The stridor was biphasic, with a more pronounced inspiratory component, and was
exacerbated by agitation and supine positioning. He had a large posterior cervical haemangioma, whose extension had never
been studied by imaging methods, and delayed growth. Flexible bronchoscopy showed a multilobulated subglottic haemangioma
(SGH), occupying more than 70% of the tracheal …